Mold for boot or shoe heels



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' MOLD FOR. BOOT 0R SHOE HEELS.

PatentedOct. 13,1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. LE GAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOLD FOR BOOT OR SHOE HEELS.

ZFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328.124, dated October13, 1885.

Application filed August 17, 1885. Serial No. l74,560. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. LE GAY, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Boot and Shoe Heel Molds, which will, in connection withthe ac companying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, andspecifically defined in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top or plan view of my invention, shownas with the mold closed. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1, viewedas from the lower or near side in that figure, but with the mold opened.Fig. 3 is a central section taken on line 12 22, Fig. 1, and w, Fig. 4,and showing the die as opened and as viewed from the opposite standpointfrom Fig. 2, and with the right-hand slide removed. Fig. 4 is anelevation taken as viewed from the left in Fig. 1.

My invention relates to molds for holding boot and shoe heels in amachine adapted to nailing the sole and heel together, and for otherpurposes to which it is applicable.

Referring again to the drawings, A repre sents the bed of themold-carrier, the same being shown as formed with a threaded axial hole,6, as a means for securing it upon an arbor by which the heel ispresented to the heelseat on the sole.

Two slides, B B, interlocked and arranged to slide in bed A, are formedupon one of their sides as half-nuts, and are engaged and 0ppo sitelyactuated by right and left hand threaded screw 0, jourualed in A, andhaving rectangular ends G, by which to rotate it with a spanner or otherwrench.

Upon slides B are respectively secured the inclined halves D D of themold-bed by means of screws 12 and lugs a a, which latter embrace theslides. Upon the halves of mold-bed D are respectively secured, byscrews (1 d, the bases E E of the longitudinally-divided mold F, asshown.

By forming mold-bed D with its top face oblique to the plane of bed A,and also forming the top of mold F parallel with the faces or planes ofbed A, the top faces of mold-bed D and mold F are oblique to each other,and hence the mold F has greater depth at its rear than at its front, inorder that it shall receive a heel having the desired form,of greaterdepth at its rear than breast.

By means of my longitudinally-divided mold and the means of rapidlymoving the halves of the same apart and together, the heel is not onlyquickly seated in, firmly held, and quickly released therefrom, but theheels may be wider at the middle than at the breast thereof, and alsomay be wider at the bottom than above that point, and may yet be readilyseated in or removed from a closely and perfectly fitted mold.

I am aware that molds for heel-stiffeners, formed in two parts andhinged together at the rear center, are old and well-known, and I makeno claim thereto; nor do 1 broadly claim a divided mold, my inventionconsisting in the specific features claimed below, as follows:

1. In combination with a longitudinallydivided heel-mold, the slides B,having the halves of the mold thereon respectivrly mounted andinterlocked to slide in bed A, and the actuating-screw G, jourualed insaid bed and threaded in said slides, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with mold-bed D, mounted and arranged to be actuatedas specified, and having its upper face oblique to that of bed A, themold F, mounted on bed D, and formed with its upper face oblique to thatof bed D and parallel to that of bed A, substantially as specified.

EDW'ARD J. LE GAY.

Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, EUGENE HUMPHREY.

